Dangerous appetite: The impact of Trypanosoma cruzi infection on the feeding and defecation behaviors of Triatoma dimidiata sensu lato (Latreille, 1811)

Irving Jesús May-Concha; Víctor Andrés Garrido-González; Guadalupe Ivette Hernández-Bolio; Mirely del Carmen Franco-Sosa; Joel Israel Moo-Millan; Etienne Waleckx

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0013872

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Dangerous appetite: The impact of Trypanosoma cruzi infection on the feeding and defecation behaviors of Triatoma dimidiata sensu lato (Latreille, 1811)

Irving Jesús May-Concha ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: irving.may@correo.uady.com.mx (IJMC); etienne.waleckx@ird.fr, etienne.waleckx@correo.uady.mx (EW)

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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Víctor Andrés Garrido-González,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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Guadalupe Ivette Hernández-Bolio,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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Mirely del Carmen Franco-Sosa,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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Joel Israel Moo-Millan,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
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Etienne Waleckx

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: irving.may@correo.uady.com.mx (IJMC); etienne.waleckx@ird.fr, etienne.waleckx@correo.uady.mx (EW)

Affiliations Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México, INTERTRYP, Univ Montpellier, Cirad, IRD, Montpellier, France, ACCyC, Asociación Chagas con Ciencia y Conocimiento, A. C., Orizaba, Veracruz, México

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-6476

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Dangerous appetite: The impact of Trypanosoma cruzi infection on the feeding and defecation behaviors of Triatoma dimidiata sensu lato (Latreille, 1811)

Irving Jesús May-Concha,
Víctor Andrés Garrido-González,
Guadalupe Ivette Hernández-Bolio,
Mirely del Carmen Franco-Sosa,
Joel Israel Moo-Millan,
Etienne Waleckx

Published: December 26, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013872

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